TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

[Christian Hedin]

I get this error when trying to convert images.

Preprocessing with ExifTool.  May take a while for a large number of files.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sortphotos.py", line 292, in sortPhotos
    metadata = e.get_metadata(*args)
  File "sortphotos.py", line 205, in get_metadata
    return json.loads(self.execute(*args))
  File "sortphotos.py", line 191, in execute
    self.process.stdin.write(str.join("\n", args))
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

Any idea what's wrong? I'm using Windows 10 and Python 3.4.3.

[Andrew Ning]

This is caused by some changes in how strings are handled in Python 3. For now I'd suggest using Python 2 if you can until I can find time to test in 3 as well.

[nekopep]

Hello I've corrected this bug in my fork that is currently in the pull request.

[souek]

nekopep - your fork work correctly also on Arch Linux and Python 3.50, without this I got similar error with the 'str' - thank you :)